Universal Solvent Quotes

#1. Heat is a universal solvent, melting out of things their power of resistance, and sucking away and removing their natural strength with its fiery exhalations so that they grow soft, and hence weak, under its glow.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#2. We are in the position of the man who has only two ambitions in life. One is to invent the universal solvent which will dissolve any solid substance, and the second is to invent the universal container which will hold any liquid. Whatever this inventor does, he will be frustrated.

Norbert Wiener

#3. Communication is the universal solvent.

L. Ron Hubbard

#4. The machine, the structure, was there, was real. Virek's money was a sort of universal solvent, dissolving barriers to his will . . .

William Gibson

#5. You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for the universal solvent, stop grieving. You will learn to compound happiness out of small increments of mindless pleasure.

Jay McInerney

#6. Would to God I were rid of this nether millstone within me, this hateful body of death. Blessed be the name of the Lord, the disease is not incurable, the Saviour's precious blood is the universal solvent, and me, even me, it will effectually soften, till my heart melts as wax before the fire.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#7. Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.

Paul Hoffman

#8. I updated my grilling app, iGrill, today and it now has Facebook integration that lets you see what other people are grilling right now around the world. Awesome.

Mark Zuckerberg

#9. Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.

Paul Hoffman

#10. Never give in to peer pressure, especially if the peer is not attractive.

Eugene Mirman

#11. I don't like attacking.

Barbara Bush

#12. What can the redwoods tell us about ourselves? Well, I think they can tell us something about human time. The flickering, transitory quality of human time and the brevity of human life - the necessity to love.

Richard Preston

#13. I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. I want to push myself to the edge.

Greg Norman

#14. In medieval Europe, aristocrats spent their money carelessly on extravagant luxuries, whereas peasants lived frugally, minding every penny. Today, the tables have turned. The rich take great care managing their assets and investments, while the less well-heeled go into debt buying cars and

Yuval Noah Harari

#15. We passed Dee's empty bedroom. It looked like Pepto-Bismol threw up in there.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#16. She did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and that it was idiotic to take it seriously.

Isabel Allende

#17. Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

Ralph Waldo Emerson